Photograph of two chorus girls from Club Plantation: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of two (2) chorus girls from Club Plantation. The women are depicted standing in front of a building, embracing each other. The woman on the right is Chickie Collins. Their bodies are depicted in profile, and their heads are turned towards the viewer. The women are wearing matching white, short sleeve shirts, and dark, wide legged sailor pants with white side buttons and pockets. Two white labels with printed black text, adhered to the bottom left and right corners of the front of the photograph read, [-Club Plantation,] and [Collins, [---?] / Chorine[?]]. There is a stamp in black ink on the back of the photograph that reads, [740]. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1933
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Chickie Collins, American, died 1942
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Subject of: Club Plantation, American, founded 1932
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 4 1/8 × 2 5/16 in. (10.4 × 5.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 4 1/2 × 2 11/16 in. (11.5 × 6.8 cm)
• Place captured: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2013.46.25.253
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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